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Growing our fully online education – find out more

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Academic colleagues with ideas for a fully online education programme are invited to find out how to make this a reality and expressions of interest to create fully online education programmes are now being encouraged, as part of this year’s IPE process.

Celebrating our PGCAP graduates

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Congratulations to our PGCAP graduates  Congratulations to over 20 of our colleagues who have graduated from the University's  PGCAP (Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice) during the last 14 months. It's time to celebrate them!  They have reflected their teaching socks off and dipped their toes into individual pedagogical research projects.  As a result, they have been...

Highlights from Engagement Week #1: Engaging and interactive learning

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How can we make our asynchronous and synchronous teaching more interactive? In December 2020, the TIPS Community celebrated its first Student Engagement Week with events and activities around engaging and interactive teaching and learning. In this post, we have highlighted top tips and tricks shared by colleagues on this week's asynchronous discussion board and during...

TIPS Engagement Week #2

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From 15 - 19 February 2021, the TIPS Community is celebrating its second Engagement Week with a series of events and activities around the hot topic of breakout rooms.  What tips and tricks are there to keep learners engaged and the experience positive for everyone in breakout room activities? Throughout this week, there will be several opportunities...

Using Flipgrid video to get students talking asynchronously

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Short Flipgrid videos from students are used to encourage participation and communication in an enjoyable and convenient way. Using a link or join code, students are able to upload videos easily and interact with other students’ contributions.   What did you do? Why did you do it?  To maintain a communicative approach to teaching in the Language Centre despite being online, we used Flipgrid to...

Share, Adopt, Adapt Workshops: August 2020

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Welcome to the second Share, Adopt, Adapt workshop round-up! We had a fantastic line of events in August that saw over 200 staff attend. Here is a quick video trailer, where I pick out the highlights from each talk. All the details and links to the presentations are listed below.  SAAW: Academic Integrity in 2020  A lively and eye-opening...

Relating and being authentic in online learning

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This initiative was for students at Masters level studying counselling and psychotherapy. Developing self and intersubjective awareness through digital learning is a very different proposition as there are many psychological differences in how we exist and interact online. This initiative offered an introduction to these issues from an expert and discussion space at the start of the programme.   What...